Trends in Oil and Gas Corrosion Research and Technologies

Abdelmounam Sherik is a Corrosion Science Consultant focusing on corrosion management in crude and gas handling and transmission facilities. In his current position with Saudi Aramco, Dr. Sherik established and advanced pipelines corrosion research in areas such as black powder, external corrosion, modeling and prediction of hydrogen induced cracking, and sulfur solubility and deposition in gas lines. He is regularly invited as a keynote speaker on black powder in international conferences and workshops. Prior to joining Saudi Aramco, he was a Senior Metallurgical Engineer with Arcelor Mittal Dofasco in Canada and a Research Scientist with the National Research Council of Canada. Abdelmounam is active in many organizations such as NACE, SPE and ASME and has served on technical committees and chairperson in several international conferences. He also owns seven patents, has authored a chapter on black powder, and has over eighty journal and conference publications. Abdelmounam earned his PhD and MSc in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, both from Queen's University in Canada.

PART I: Corrosion in the Oil and Gas Upstream and Mid-stream: Introduction 1. Cost of corrosion 2. Petroleum fluids properties and production schemes: Effect on Corrosion 3. Corrosion Management

Part II: Corrosion In Oil and Gas Production and Transmission: Current Knowledge and Challenges 4. Downhole Corrosion 5. Onshore Corrosion in Surface Production and Transmission Sectors- Current Knowledge and Challenges

Part III: Corrosion Mechanisms: Current Knowledge, Gaps and Future Research 6. Sour Corrosion   7. CO2 Corrosion of mild steel 8. Microbiology-Influenced Corrosion (MIC) 9. Pitting Corrosion 10. Corrosion of Weldments  11. Sulfide Stress Cracking 12. Stress Corrosion Cracking 13. Hydrogen Damage 14. Erosion-corrosion 15. Under Deposit Corrosion 16. Top-of-the-Line corrosion 17. Corrosion Under Insulation 18. Corrosion and Scale at High Pressure High Temperature Part IV: Advancements in Testing and Monitoring Technologies 19. Corrosion Inhibitors – Advancements in Testing 20. Advances in Monitoring Technologies for Corrosion Inhibitor Performance 21. Advances in Testing and Monitoring of Biocides in Oil and Gas 22. Molecular Microbiology Techniques

Part V: Advancements in Corrosion Mitigation 23. Biocides Overview and Applications in Petroleum Microbiology. 24. Pipeline Coatings 25. Advancements in Cathodic Protection of Offshore Structures 26. New Steels and Corrosion Resistant Alloys  27. Non-metallics applications in oil and gas production (pipes, liners, rehabilitations) 

Part VI:  Advancements in Modeling and Prediction 28. Pitting corrosion 29. Top-of-the-Line corrosion 30. Modeling and Prediction of Stress Corrosion Cracking of Pipeline Steels 31. Mechanistic Modeling of Erosion-Corrosion for Carbon Steel 32. Residual Life Predictions - Extending Service Life 33. Non-metallic Materials - Coupling of Multiphysics for Aging Rate Prediction 34. Mathematical Modeling of Uniform CO2 Corrosion

GLOSSARY Part I: Abbreviations